Hello plus question

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:00:40 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> What i think would be a good ideas for fc2, would be:
> - a bugzilla "component" where you could complain about distribution
> policy.

Choose component "distribution", which exists for a long time.

> - A semi-official mirror for dogy-licensed things (everything from mp3
> to java and maybe even nvidia rpms) - something like Debian
> non-us/contrib - and that could be toggled at install and later.

The problem with patenting or licencing issues is that such stuff cannot
even be linked.

> - Yum gui frontend (or maybe switch to apt4rpm? its quicker, and has a
> great gui (synaptic)

It's called AptRpm or just "apt". apt4rpm is an add-on, see
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

> - Better integration between yum/apt and rpm - so that rpm got yum/apt
> to automatically fetch dependencies when needed.

You mean circular integration? RPM uses Yum _and_ Yum uses RPM?